"... so how many households are in New York? What portion might have pianos? How often are pianos tuned? How long might it take to tune a piano? How many homes can one tuner reach in a day? How many days a year does a tuner work? None of the individual estimates has to be particularly accurate in order to get a reasonable overall answer. Remote Uzbek villagers would not perform well on Fermi problems, but neither did I before taking that class" --- **Tags** — [[quotes]], [[first-principles-thinking]], [[fermi-problems]] **Source** — [[202308101402 — B — Range]]